That’s a shame. I had read a gardening book a few years ago that made the point that there was a sharp drop off in quality of seeds sold to your average weekend back-yard gardener in comparison to the far better products sold to business-size enterprises and farmers.

Hence, the book suggested that the backyard gardener start doing business with those relatively few seed firms that took the time to do germination studies on seeds they sold to consumers, the same as they do with their commercial customers, and make that information available to all.

A couple of the seed companies that I started ordering from for that reason were Johnny and Territorial.

Now I see they’ve gone over to the Dark Side.

I really try to stay away from any product denoted as an F1 hybrid. Hopefully they haven’t tampered with the seeds denoted as “heritage”, but who can say these days?